One day we’re up to our eyeballs in spring sales and May madness deals, the next it’s apparently summer festival season, or at least it is according to GOG who started their summer sale this week. Even if you don’t end up actually buying anything, you can still get sci-fi adventure puzzle game Obduction for absolutely nothing, which is as good a reason as any to go and have a gander. Epic’s big deals blowout continues as well, of course, but two big sales does not a Best PC Gaming Deals of the Week article make. Oh no. Your deals herald wants more. MORE, I tell you. And MORE you shall have, because that is the way of your deals herald. Read on below for the truest of the true best PC gaming deals around right now.

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I missed another day again, because I was out of the office yesterday. At this point I’m wondering what the earth even looks like. Should one even bother to continue to save it? It’s probably become a Mad Maxian hellscape over just three weeks. The Tory leadership contest has shifted to a big bottom-bashing contest in a pit dug out of the House Of Commons. It’s been fully Armageddoned several times over. Aerosmith tried to screech out I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing but got totally steamrollered. Brown bread, mate. Brown bread with extra yeast.

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Ah, poor Apex Legends. I’ve been neglecting you. You’re the best royal battler out there, but nowadays I’m too busy chopping swordboys in Mordhau. If only you were to hold some kind of limited-time event next week, where I could earn the right to compete in a special “Elite Queue” and earn special cosmetics. You should chuck in a double XP weekend too, while you’re at it. That might lure me back. Oh, and tell me a little something about the upcoming Season 2 Battle Pass.

Oh, cool.

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Oi. Mate. See that skull? That is the skull of a demon who stood betwixt my axe whirling dwarf and a nice new pair of trousers, for I have been playing angry Topman visit simulator Warhammer: Chaosbane, a serviceable ARPG that s a fair bit more interesting than Diablo 3 but probably slightly less interesting than a top end hand blender. Confused? Excellent. Let the merciless torture of wonky metaphors commence.

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No speedrun-focused game has sunk its claws in me like neon-dripping Distance. I remember trying it out with my brother when it was first released in beta, and as I made my way through the rather short Adventure Mode, I remember enjoying it but wondering whether this was meant to be the meat of the game. By the time the credits rolled, I was left intrigued but disappointed that there wasn’t more to this arcade racer filled with twists and jumps and winged cars and such potential for craziness. As it turns out, all that craziness was waiting for me in the Arcade Mode, and the leaderboards.

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After watching with an astronomer’s practised, patient curiosity for over six years, Mobius Digital have finally launched their grand-yet-personal space adventure, Outer Wilds. Judging by the excited warbling I hear from the RPS treehouse and beyond, it’s rather special. A grand but short space adventure (extended by time-loops), set in and around a series of tiny but detailed worlds full of strange and likeable people and puzzles to solve. Below, RPS video lad Matthew Castle shares his thoughts on the game. Plus, thanks to Epic’s big sale, the game is half price until June 13th.

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If you’re going to die (repeatedly) somewhere, it may as well be scenic, and I’m happy to describe Battlefield V‘s new map – Mercury – as a treat for the eyes. Released today in a free update, it’s inspired by Operation Mercury in 1941, a German assault on the island of Crete. What this means is a large map that equally suits infantry, aircraft and armour. DICE reckon that fans of Guadalcanal from Battlefield 1942 might feel a pang of nostalgia playing this one. Below, an update trailer where they do that clever Battlefield thing where the guns are percussion.

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Put a cat in a big stompy mech suit and what do you get? Really big scratches in the curtains, probably, but also a neat looking monochrome Metroid-alike. Gato Roboto, developed by Doinksoft, is out today and looking adorable despite its high explosion quotient. As well as a big multi-functional robot suit, the cat can hop out of their armour in order to solve puzzles, crawl through small spaces, pilot other machines, or even just use the barrel of the suit’s gun as an impromptu platform. It’s all rather clever. Below, a launch trailer with an annoyingly catchy beat.

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Coming to us from Activision’s ever-cycling stable of studios comes another Call Of Duty this October. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare is a reimagining of this particular sub-series, rather than another remake or sequel, and not to be confused with Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, or Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered. Original developers Infinity Ward are returning and threatening an “edgy, culturally relevant and thought-provoking single-player campaign”. Seems they’re going back to cinematic excess after Black Ops 4 went entirely multiplayer. Below, the debut trailer.

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Behaviour Interactive today relaunched their 1v5 multiplayer murderzone Deathgarden, a game which has struggled a whole lot more than its elder gamesibling, Dead By Daylight. It’s still in early access but, reworked and renamed Deathgarden: Bloodharvest, might now be closer to a game that y’know people play. You can now see for yourself whether that’s you because, as well as giving two spare copies to everyone who’d already bought it (ask your pals, eh?), Behaviour have launched a free trial weekend and given it a permanent price cut.

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